a children book just to start this weekend,Mr. Peek & the misunderstanding at the zoo by Kevin Waldronthat won the Opera Prima award at Bologna Children's Book Fair 2009.i love these colors, the lay-out, all the characters and the slinky pencil strokes.his next book The Owl & the Pussy-cat it's coming out later this yearand i hope there'll be more...you can't miss his web and blog,i feel like diving into this world and enjoy drawing!..hope you'll have a great weekend!

some of the things i've been involved in lately:i've been playing with silicon moldsmaking a very sweet army,with my new tool for cutting, grinding, polishing...making some wood cards,painting faces on fabrics and creating little ghosts.that's how things are, don't know how it's going to turn out! at the moment it looks like some little ghost broochesand an army of extras, to keep dolis y dolos company, are going to appear.let's wait and see,have a nice week!!* thanks to Ieva and thelongthread for including me on her friday Etsy finds! and thank you jessicaleighlalou for nominating my blog (i'm still making my own list):)

8.21.2009

y nosotros aquí, en la ciudad.he encontrado estas fotografías que hice de la Fageda d'en Jordàun mes de agosto de hace algunos añosy me he zambullido en ese verde.me quedaré un ratito, se está bien ahí....entre verde y verde descansoen mi balcón que lo tengo más cerquita:)such a hot weather here in the city...i came accross these images i took on august some years ago,at the Fageda d'en Jordà,i've been diving into the green.i'm going to remain there for a while,so fresh and quiet....and my balcony, where i love to have a rest and craft.it's not the same... but it's ok for me!os paso una cabecita estallando una y otra vez,es la cabecita tetera de lili carré, os acordáis de ella?no os perdáis su blog! (gracias gabi!)espero no acabar así estos días!!feliz fin de semana :)here is a little head exploding again and again,kettle head by lilli carré, (i wrote about her here)posted on her wonderful blog, don't miss it!!(thanks gabriel!)hope not ending up this way these days!!!have a nice weekend :)

hey! how is your weekend going?i'm finishing the job that kept me busy lately,wishing to show you my new work!soon there will be some pics and i'll tell you about more 'dolis y dolos' for the moment i want to share with you three things that made me smile:

la tercera,me asomo de vez en cuando por el blog de Elinkany me hizo gracia este vídeo,es uno peinado que aprendí a hacer de pequeñay que últimamente me había vuelto a hacer.third one,i love images and style from Elikan's blog,this is a lovely video tutorial.i made this hairdo by myself when i was a child and i've been doing it again lately, so i loved it when i came across it!

i take this opportunity to cover the disaster from Taiwan's latest typhoon,John&Fish (one of my Flickr contacts, i adore their images ) sent a mass mail telling about the actual situation, here it is:(i'm sorry about posting this after the hairdo video tutorial, but it's funny and quite hard how life works... so this could be a good example from what can happen on two different places at the same time )

"...Upon several day’s observation, Aug 8 typhoon really madea huge disaster to south part of Taiwan till now, there aremany many disaster area still need rescue & help.

We surprised found our Taiwan authorities seems back to 20years ago authority age, refused international rescue sincesome reasons we people and refugee don’t know, just likeNorth Korea, Cuba, Syria, China those autarchy countries.

Base on humanity concern and internet convenience, we sentthis mail to let you know what is going on here, and if youmay, please let more people know the truth and even putstress to our authorities to accept international rescueASAP, as you know time is life.

hello everybody! are you enjoying these summer days?i'm still working, well... triying to work and concentrateit's so hard doing it during this time...i try to remember that i'll take up againmy little things as soon as i finish it!but i've got distracted so often...so have a nice time gals, enjoy!! :D..thank you so much for all those nice comments on my last post,doli Jo March is the queen of the dancing party already!..i love this painting by Andrew Cross (super8), via Penguin & Fish

this doli is a special gift for my friend Pepa that was pending from a long ago. she loves reading Jane Austen, Bronte's sisters... and all this period.so when i thought of making a doli for her i knew that she had to be related to all that world.at the begining i made a doli book, but she looks more like frankenstein, poor little dollie...i've always fallen for Little Woman story and specially Jo march character, as Pepa do, and i thought it would be a good option. i look for information and images about dresses, fashion, colours... it had to be simply, demure and ellegant. i came across a vintage doll at sew nancy whose body-dress was so simple that it would fit perfectly as Jo's dress.

once she had a body and both arms (this time she'd need two little arms to hold her book). i tried some shapes on her to see how a bonnet and a little capellet would fit.

i tested some ornaments and finally i chose a red rig rack and lace too. i was smitten by the color stitches from inside of the bonnet and i didn't sew it to her head, so she could take it off. i sew her capelet to her body matching her dress color.